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    AP Guide: Using Coaching and Mentoring to Support Colleagues: Core Principles and Techniques

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    This guide is part of a suite of four guides designed for those working in Advanced Practitioner-type roles across the Further Education and Training Sector as part of the Education and Training Foundation's 'Professional Development Programme for Advanced Practitioners' (Feb 2018-). The guide will help Advanced Practitioners (APs) to rediscover things they already know and will add to their toolkit of skills, competencies, models and approaches.

    AP Guide: Creating Spaces to Think in Further Education and Training (Thinking Environment)

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    This guide is part of a suite of four guides designed for those working in Advanced Practitioner-type roles across the Further Education and Training Sector as part of the Education and Training Foundation's 'Professional Development Programme for Advanced Practitioners'. The guide will help Advanced Practitioners (APs) to rediscover things they already know and will add to their toolkit of skills, competencies, models and approaches.

    Supporting learners with additional needs: A three-tier approach

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    This guide outlines ways that learners can get the support they need without necessarily drawing on Additional Learning Support funding. Some learners don’t want to be singled out as
    needing extra help or to have a member of support staff visibly assigned to them. Enabling learners with additional needs to make good progress is as much about differentiated,
    inclusive teaching and learning, as it is about high-quality learning support. And additional support does not always have to take the form of an ALS practitioner, as learners’ needs

    ETF teaching films

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    ETF worked to create a set of subject specific films where expert practitioners talked about tips and tricks of delivering their particular subjects. As some of the content seemed at times rather generic we have created two sets of films:
    1] Films where a teacher from FE talks generally about good teaching practice
    2] Films where the teacher talks specifically about teaching X, where X is their subject

    Download document with background and Youtube links

    Engaging Learners with Assistive Technology to improve outcomes

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    As part of the Improving Study Programmes for Learners with SEND, four colleges: Beaumont, Activate, Henshaw's and Langdon ran a progroject that focused on assistive technology. This zipped file contents the resource outputs from that project. Included is an introduction to their project, four case studies (one from each college), a map outlining the assistive technology assessment process and an IT access assessment proforma.

    Improving Learner Support

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    Preston College led a collaborative project focused on ways to improve learner support funded by ETF. They produced a number of outputs. You can watch their video, https://youtu.be/qAbiD1uEqRw, which explain the process the went through and the changes they made. You can download the zipped file containing: Tips to help practitioners work effectively with learning support assistants for the benefit of their learners and an example learner profile page.

    Advanced Practitioner Toolkit - Professional Development Cards

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    This toolkit has been produced to support the work of Advanced Practitioners (APs). It builds on an original set of cards used to develop the skills of teaching and learning coaches who, using a peer to peer coaching model, work with staff to improve specific aspects of their delivery. The cards are practical tools aimed at supporting APs to drive quality improvements in teaching, learning and assessment across provision. They can be used when working one to one with collages as well as with small groups and department teams.

    A provider guide – How to design and deliver effective employer engagement activities

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    This resource is for all types of providers and organisations working across the FE sector with 16 and 17 year olds studying below Level 2. It provides step-by-step guidance on how to design, deliver and evaluate effective employer engagement activities and secure good outcomes for this group of young people on their pathway to higher levels of study and/or employment.

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